Every decision we've summarized from United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
The Federal Circuit reversed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's determination that a patent claim was obvious, holding that the Board impermissibly imported limitations from the specification into the claim construction. The court clarified that a 'programming change' requires an alteration in the function of a device, not merely a change in stored data.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal in a contract dispute between VB Assets, LLC and Amazon.com Services LLC. The dismissal was granted by order because the parties agreed to the resolution.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision finding patent claims obvious. The court held that the Board erred by relying on an undisputed factual premise that the patent owner had not contested the obviousness argument.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision regarding claim twenty-six of a shipping sensor network patent but vacated and remanded the decision for claims nine and twenty-three through twenty-five due to the Board's failure to address a specific non-obviousness argument.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a judgment finding that a police officer did not shoot a tribal member on a reservation. The court held that the government did not abuse its discretion in imposing a rebuttable adverse inference sanction for spoliation of evidence.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of a motion for judgment as a matter of law regarding patent infringement and invalidity findings in a dispute over DSL technology patents.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision finding specific patent claims unpatentable for obviousness. The court held that substantial evidence supported the Board's findings regarding prior art references and the motivation to combine them.
The Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's obviousness rejections for most claims of a network-threat detection patent but reversed its finding for two specific claims. The court held that the Board failed to provide substantial evidence that a skilled artisan would have been motivated to combine prior art references to render claims 4 and 14 obvious.
The Federal Circuit affirmed the International Trade Commission's finding that no Section 337 violation occurred, upholding the termination of the investigation. The court held that substantial evidence supported the conclusion that Centripetal's products failed to meet the technical requirements of the asserted patent claims.
The Federal Circuit affirmed the district court's ruling that specific augmented reality patent claims are invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101 as abstract ideas. The court held that the patents merely recite generic computer components performing conventional location-based filtering without an inventive concept.